Pennsylvania must deal with waterways polluted by abandoned coal mines as it determines how to regulate wastewater from natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation, state environmental officials told a Senate panel Wednesday.

The hearing before the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee focused in part on a proposed regulation by the Department of Environmental Protection to limit the amount of salty wastewater or dissolved solids discharged into state waterways.

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